School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- Collector
- Larry Leavy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Leavy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Kilrush Lower, Co. Westmeath
- In the year 1822 AD there was a big storm in Ireland. Many houses were blown down and many others were wrecked. There was one house and a poor widow lived in it. She had no one but herself in the house. It was a thatched house and there was not as much as a straw taken from it. Some of the houses that were in the fields had trees growing around them, and the trees fell on them and wrecked them.
- Candles were made out of rushes long ago. Baskets were made out of waffles weaved in and out together. The people who used theses baskets were poor.